Tear Up Carpet On Stairs

I started at the bottom corner of the stairs by using a crowbar to pry the carpet away from the tack strip.

Tear up carpet on stairs.

Hopefully that will happen next summer. Find a good place to start removing carpet from stairs. I have plans to install hardwoods in our upstairs hallway. To remove carpet from stairs start at the top.

Start at the top of the stairs and remove the carpet with the vise grips and utility knife. Keep moving the screwdriver until the tack strip comes up. Do this same technique with all the 3 567 987 million staples. The blue stuff is the carpet padding and the arrows show where the nail strips are.

One year ago i ripped up all of the beige carpet on my stairs. Grip the carpet with both hands for easier removal and to maintain balance and safety. Wear gloves to protect your hands from the staples that hold the carpet in place. Cut the carpet with a utility knife under the nose of the landing.

Use the vise grips to pull the carpet free from the riser. This works fine for now. I ended up cutting it a little more and folding the carpet under and stapling it down at the edge of the wood that is at the top of the staircase. I only want to have carpet in the bedrooms one day.

Each piece of carpet was also wrapped around the edges of the stairs and around the balusters so i had to remove the staples holding it in place from underneath green arrow below. So here is the project replace carpet with stair runner tutorial. I removed all of the padding tack strips nails and staples. If there s a metal nosing at the top of the stairs pry it up to remove it.

I repaired the treads removed. Once you get the carpet up this is what you will see. If not cut the carpet near the top of the top riser grab the cut end and pull the carpet off the stairs by hand. I started with the bottom step by using pliers to pull carpet away from stairs.